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Drehwürmchen

Roll a worm, harvest raspberries

The little worms love to nibble at strawberries and you must collect little worms in order to harvest raspberries, but this will only work if you collect triplets of the same color.

27 wooden discs show worms, three each of the same color in nine different colors; those discs are spread face-down on the table and shuffled again. The necessary number of raspberries - depending on the number of players - is stacked open-faced.

In your turn you roll the die: When the result is an arrow, your turn ends and you hand the die to the next player. For a green leaf you can roll again, and a raspberry basically also means that your turn ends -but only until a worm has been rolled. As soon as the player who rolled the worm starts to turn up worm discs, using one hand only. When three worms of the same color are visible you take this triplet. The other players meanwhile go on rolling in turn; when another worm appears that means stop - you swap your triplets for one raspberry each from the stack, turn the worms back over again und shuffle all worm discs. But should a raspberry be rolled, you keep your turned-up worms, but the player who rolled the raspberry now turns up worm discs and you roll with the others. This continues until a worm calls a halt and worm-triplets are swapped for raspberries or until another raspberry is rolled and the new player begins to turn up worm discs. When all raspberries have been harvested, you win with most of them.

The educational effect is neatly hidden in Drehwürmchen; it trains concentration, dexterity and attention spans quite unobtrusively, the searching for worm triplet is real fun!

Players: 2-6

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Hajo Bücken, Dirk Hanneforth

Art: Johann Rüttinger

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2012

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Memo and dice game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple basic mechanisms

Intense training for dexterity and concentration

Pretty wooden components

Compares to:

All set-collecting games using dice

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 2